Tag: Happy Ending
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Thanks, Avista!
Yesterday was a bad windstorm. Not as bad as 2015 or 2021, but significant. After it was done at noon yesterday, about 1/4 of Spokane was powerless. Avista got to work, and this morning ALL of those outages are fixed. The map has a few brand-new outages, probably trees that were leaning after yesterday and…
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LemonAIde
I’ve been writing this blog for 20 years. Until this year I usually had two or three semi-regular readers. This year the humans are gone, leaving nothing but AI bots. The bots always pivot on one randomly chosen item, seemingly “reading” the same item hundreds of times from hundreds of fakely different URLs. This item…
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Update at last on Hilderbrand
The fake “shutdown” didn’t affect me in any meaningful way. I can’t figure out what the politicians hope to accomplish by playing this game. They weren’t solving any problems before the “shutdown”, and they’re not solving any problems now. The “shutdown” doesn’t change anything. The “shutdown” did prevent me from satisfying my curiosity and reaching…
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Start with quality.
Last week I wrote up a contest between the first coast-to-coast airmail flight and a group of Essex cars. The cars won. Hudson touted the event in a 1922 pamphlet which omits the airmail comparison entirely. By this account the project was originated by the Post Office in an attempt to widen the range of…
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Regrowth
From RealClear, an article with hopeful signs. The article misses the former strength of smaller cities. It mocks the NYC bigotry but basically agrees with NYC that the universe ends at the Hudson River. The term “flyover country” was not just a snobbish put-down but a reality as a handful of core cities – New…
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Good news from Enid
The last time I heard, Enid’s only skyscraper was scheduled for demolition. A new owner is saving the Broadway Tower, and will turn it into part condos part offices. Enid is where my soul lives. A restoration there helps my soul. Broadway Tower is one of the beacons for Enid. When approaching from the east,…
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Seems to prove, did prove
Back in April I was called to serve on a federal jury for a fraud against the SBA loans in the “virus” monstrosity. I couldn’t handle the stress at this age but the feds didn’t allow exceptions for aging. I escaped after one day by stating HONESTLY that my emotions about the “virus” torture camp…
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Grange beats Orange
A nice contrast to yesterday’s piece on tribes NOT doing the right thing. In part of the Plains the Mutual spirit still functions. Unsurprising. This is Mennonite territory, Farmers Co-op territory, and Grange territory. High plains farmers are accustomed to working together. Via NiemanLab: High Plains Radio, a collective of small NPR stations in irrigated-circle…
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An MBS story never told
This is a splendid story. The origin of a world-famous structure is never heard in our media and history books, for a fucking obvious reason. In 1930 San Francisco wanted to build the Golden Gate Bridge. Banks were collapsing and The Holy Market had decided to bomb the whole country. None of the usual funds…
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Good!
The agency that runs PBS and NPR is closing down. GOOD. PBS and NPR lost their public purpose 50 years ago. PBS switched from education to entertainment. NPR switched from unbiased to pure DNC. Government is supposed to serve ALL the people, not just the members of one party or one elite class. Education was…
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Caught the terrorist!
Spokane Police arrested Chad “Misty” Horne at 7PM tonight. GOOD WORK, COPS! And good work by the normal people who called in tips. Horne was found in Liberty Lake, quite a distance from the usual homeless hangouts. No more arsons for a few hours. We can relax for a few hours. The cops and firefighters…
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Big things don’t hit the news.
Reading some railroad-related items on Quora. Three years ago, a Canadian insider mentioned that Canadian Pacific was about ready to buy Kansas City Southern, forming the first complete north-south railroad across all of the continent. Sure enough, the merger was completed in 2023 and fully running this year. This is BIG news for both countries…
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Fun to watch
It’s fun to watch the long breakup of Lady Donald and Lady Elon. Somebody memorably described them as two aging divas. Fits perfectly. Liberace and Oscar Levant. From my viewpoint, they’re two iconic psychopaths. Each needs to create chaos and harm, each is convinced that he will always win every contest. Most of their experience…
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The Foy Rebellion HAS ARRIVED.
Headline: Art majors beat computer majors. = = = = = START QUOTE: For computer science and computer engineering, the unemployment rate in those fields was 6.1% and 7.5%, respectively — notably higher than the national average. Finance majors were 3.7%. By comparison, the unemployment rate for art history majors was 3%, and for nutritional…
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Oughta be a word
When I read that yesterday was Cellophane Tape Day, my first thought was “Huh? Is that a newly invented alternative to scotch tape?” No, it’s just the official generic name for scotch tape. When the trademark becomes generic (scotch tape, kleenex, hamburger), reverting to the untrademarked term (cellophane tape, facial tissue, bun sandwich) is a…
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